Ray Tracing (mob)

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

 

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

Ray Tracing

Health points	20HP × 10
Behavior	Passive
Hitbox size	Height: 1.8 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks
Spawn	Overworld
Usable items	Lead

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Ray Tracing is a humanoid mob exclusive to the April Fools' snapshot 23w13a_or_b that spawns within the Overworld.

Spawning

Ray Tracing can be allowed into the world by activating the vote minecraft:ray_tracing and waiting for the message "Ray Tracing has joined the game". Ray Tracing spawns at a random position around the world spawnpoint, regardless of the gamerule spawnRadius.

Behavior

Throwing a splash bottle of ray tracing at any mob can disguise it as Ray Tracing, and hostile mobs target a changed Ray Tracing, subsequently if it is really a hostile mob, it attacks the attacker.

Ray Tracing wanders randomly in the world, sending random chat messages to the player. Upon death, Ray Tracing sends a random chat message.

When the vote minecraft:ray_tracing is repealed, "Ray Tracing has left the game" is sent on the chat and the entity despawns.

Chat messages

When the entity has initially spawned, Ray Tracing sends a spawn message after between 4 and 30 seconds. Idle messages are sent in intervals of between 30 and 180 seconds.

Post-death messages

Idle messages

Spawn messages

Disable messages

French mode

In French mode, Ray Tracing can only say "Omelette du fromage". This is a reference to the Cartoon Network show Dexter's Laboratory.

Sounds

Ray Tracing uses the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Ray Tracing	ray_tracing	entity.minecraft.ray_tracing

Entity data

Ray Tracing has entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Gallery

• 
  A skeleton disguised as Ray Tracing.
• 
  Texture
• 
  In French mode

Trivia

• It is impossible to summon Ray Tracing with the /summon command.
• Ray Tracing is always in Survival Mode.
• If any mob is disguised as Ray Tracing, hostile mobs attack the disguised target.
• If French Mode is on, Ray Tracing also has the clothing of French Mode.
• Leashing Ray Tracing makes the lead invisible.

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